Differences between inter- and intraspecific architectonic adaptations to pharyngeal mollusc crushing in cichlid fishes

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 367-387

  Smits, Jan D ^a   Witte, Frans ^a   Povel, G David E ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

architectonic morphology; Astatoreochromis alluaudi; constraints molluscivory; haplochromine cichlids; insectivory; phenotypic plasticity pattern; transformations

Indexed keywords

ASTATOREOCHROMIS ALLUAUDI; CICHLIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MOLLUSCA; PISCES; VICTORIA;

EID: 0030458802     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bijl.1996.0070     Document Type: Article

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